Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ Colored oval Box with Text

[Sylvie_H]

Hello,

I would like to create an oval color box with text in it. I have found the bclogo package but I can't set the width or the length of the box (I want to create a box with {minipage} environments in it, and besides I don't need a logo).

Thanks for your help !

[cgnieder]

Hi Sylvie,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

If I understand correctly what you want should be easily doable with TikZ/pgf (pgfmanual).

Regards

[Sylvie_H]

Thanks - I'm not a very talented LaTeX user but I'll try to find my answer in there...

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Sylvie,

welcome to the forum!

For inspiration, perhaps have a look at the TikZ example gallery. If you have further questions, let us know.

Stefan

[Sylvie_H]

Hello again - my problem is that I would like to put a whole text page in my oval box, not just one or two words...

I have a picture background and on that, I would like to put a white oval box with text in it.

Here is my code : I would like to replace \fcolorbox{black}{white}{...} by something doing the same job but with round corners...

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\AddToShipoutPicture{\BackgroundPict}
\setlength{\fboxsep}{10pt}
\fcolorbox{black}{white}{
\begin{minipage}[t]{12cm}
\hskip 2cm\noindent
\includegraphics[scale=0.7 ]{Logo}
\begin{center}
{\bf (a few lines of text)
 \end{center}
\vskip 0.8cm
\framebox[12cm]{
\begin{minipage}[t]{11cm}\color[rgb]{.2,.4,.5}{\begin{center}\Large
 (a few lines of text)
\end{minipage}}
\vskip 0.8cm
\begin{center}
{\bf \Large  Some more text}
 \end{center}
\end{minipage}
}

[cgnieder]

Can you please extend your code into a minimal working example (MWE)? (If you're uncertain what that is just follow the link.)

By the way: \bf (and also \it and \sc) are obsolete in LaTeX2e (which is what we're all using and has been released in 1992). The correct font switches are \bfseries, \itshape and \scshape. As to why they are obsolete let's quote l2tabu:

Obsolete commands do not support LaTeX2e's new font selection scheme, or NFSS. {\bf foo}, for example, resets all font attributes which had been set earlier before it prints foo in bold face. This is why you cannot simply define a bold-italics style by {\it \bf Test} only. (This definition will produce: Test.) On the other hand, the new commands \textbf{\textit{Test}} will behave as expected producing: Test.

Apart from that, with the former commands there is no ‘italic correction’, cf. for instance halfhearted ({\it half}hearted) to halfhearted (\textit{half}hearted).

Regards